An editorial suggests that Education Secretary Margaret Spellings\' proposals to make college more affordable and accessible are well-intentioned -- but they could turn into a bureaucratic nightmare. Her plans were announced prior to the release of the first major national report on higher education since the 1980s. Spellings says she wants to apply the same principles of accountability in the No Child Left Behind Act to colleges and universities. The editorial further charges that the No Child Left Behind Act has given birth to a whole new, costly, bureaucratic federal process for local schools, while undermining local and state control. Spellings also proposes a national database, maintained by the federal government, which would track college achievement without compromising student privacy; and a national college achievement test. The editorial calls the latter proposal for a test "as chilling as it is preposterous" suggesting that no single test could measure college achievement in so many specialties -- biology, English, nursing, computer science -- that are typical of university programs.